Metallic crate.



J. R. R Q'EEZE.

METALLEC CRATE; APPLAFATION ms 0 NOV. a; 1916.

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METALLIC Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1915 Application filed November 8, 1916. Serial No. 130,265.

2" all whom it may concern Be it kno n that l, JOHNATHAN R. Fnnnzr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, Butler county, Ohid'have invented certain new and useful llmprovements in Metallic Crates, of which the following is a specification.

While my improved metallic crate will lend itself to employment witha variety of articles to be crated, it has been devised with special regard to the. crating of nestable.

sheet metal culverts which are somewhat typical of a class of articles presenting dithculties in being securely and otherwise satisfactorily packed to insure convenienceof handling and against injury in shipment,

especially shipment by sea.

Fig. 4 a side elevation of my improvedcrate shown as containing a lot of the culvert sections: and

Fig: 5 a perspective viewofthe crate, some of the members being partially broken away to expose otherwise hidden construction.

A. diversity of scales is employed in the drawing. 7

In the drawing 1,'indicates a section of aunestable sheetmetal culvert, the section being a short halttube:

2, one of the cover-strips employed in unit ing the longitudinal edges of the culvert-sea tions:

3,-a pair of angle-irons bent from sheetmetal: e

4;, a similar pair of angles rest' upon the horizontal fiangesof the first aiigles, the

vertical flanges of the four angles 'proj acting upwardly, and the four angles forming a sheet-metal bottom-frame: f

5 and 6, similar angles forming a topframe:

7, vertical angles dlsposed as columns with their ends -engagmg within the horizontal flanges of the angles at the top and bottom of the crate:

8, the longitudinal edges or" the angular columns, these edges being formed as tubes rolled from the edges of the angles:

9, bolts extending through the tubes of the columns and through the horizontal flanges of the angles forming the top-frame and the bottom-iframe 10, nuts on these bolts, to permit of, the 3 parts of the crate being firmly secured to each other when assembled:

11, wall-members disposed against the inner surfaces or" opposite columns and pro vided with horizontal flanges engaging the 7 upper surfaces of the inner flanges of angles 3: v

12, a floor-sheet resting on the inner flanges of the wall-members: I

13, a lot of the culvert sections packed in the improved crate: and 14: the horizontal flanges of the wall-members, these flanges projecting inwardly and resting on the. inwardly projecting flanges o'fthe bottomframe, the floor-sheet l2 resting on these 8@ horizontal flanges 14:.

Looking at Fig. 4 it will be apprehended that, as the culvert-sections are nested with their" concavities downward, there willbe a rather large space or chambe at the foot of the pile of sections. Floor-sheet 12 forms the floor for this chamber and wall-members 11 close the ends of the chamber. ld ithin the chamber there may be placed the lot of cover-strips, bolts, etc, to be employed in 9 connection with the sections. If there be no desire to provide a closed speclal chamber within the crate then the floor-sheet and the wall-members may be omitted.

Assuming that the crate is to be employed for culvert-sectmns and then uniting dev1ces, the packing procedure maybe as follows i the Wall-members 11 are placed; the floorsheet is placed; the cover strips, etc, are disposed on the floor-sheet; the culvert-sections are piled within the columnar crate; the top angles are assembled over the columns and bolts; and the nuts are applied to the bolts and tightened and, if desired, the bolts are riveted over the nuts The crate guards its contents in highly satisfactory manner and the package is capable of 1m through the frames and tubes, combined withstanding extremely rough handling in shipping. i

In View of the fact that the improved crate is liable to be in use with any of its faces uppermost, it isto be understood that such terms as top, bottom, vertical, horizontal, etc., are to be considered in their relative sense only. 3

I claim 1. A crate comprising, a pair, of-frames adapted to form the ends of the crate, sheet-., metal columns connecting'the corners of one frame with the corners of the other frame, tubes formed by the longitudinal edges of the columns, and bolts extending substantially as set forth.

2. A crate comprising, a pair-of angleirons provided with inwardly extending flanges perforated at their ends and forming' the ,side members of anend frame of I and forming separable end-members of the frame, the ends of the horizontal flanges ofone pair of'members overlapping the ends the crate, angle-ironsindependent of the first-mentioned angle-irons provided with inwardly extending flanges with their ends perforated in correspondence with the perforations in the first-mentioned angle-irons of the horizontal flanges of the other pair of members, a second end frame similarly frames against the ends Witnesses formed of four angle irons provided with inwardly projecting flanges perforated and overlapping at their ends, columns extend.- ing from frame to frame at the corners of the frames, and bolts extending from frame 7 gaging the' columns and one of the frames and provided with inwardly projecting flanges, and a fioor-plate'disp'osed within the frame engaged by the wall-members and resting onthe-flanges of 'the wall members, combined substantially as set forth.

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4:. A crate comprising, a sheet-metalcolumn-member 'Ja'ngular 1n cr0ss-section, tubes formed in the longitudinal edges of the column, and bolts extending through the tubes, combined substantially as set forth.

J QHNATHAN R. FREEZE.

W. P. DU CHEMIN,

WUERDEMAN. 

